A Startup Founder’s Bedtime Reading List

Founding a startup? Here is a hand-picked list of transformational books for you.

I’ll add more to the list if I bump into other interesting resources.

• Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
• How To Win Friends and Influence People
• Influence: Science and Practice
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)]
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  

Have Something to Share?
If you have anything to add to the list, just shoot me an email at me@volkan.io and I will update this page.

That’s all for now. Good luck with your startup.

And, until next time… May the source be with you 🦄.

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